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As the Johnny Manziel mini-series descends into the absurd — ESPN has deputized MIT's best and brightest to calculate the latest autograph tally — two names spring to mind: Ralph Sampson and Michael Vick. By today's standards, they had it easy. They weren't tempted by Twitter, recorded by cell phones or berated by bloggers. But in their time, the early 1980s for Sampson, nearly two decades later for Vick, they were college sports royalty. Sampson was a three-time national player of the year at Virginia, a 7-foot-4 basketball prodigy who defied position labeling and, often, description. Vick was a freshman phenom at Virginia Tech, a quarterback with...

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As the Johnny Manziel mini-series descends into the absurd — ESPN has deputized MIT's best and brightest to calculate the latest autograph tally — two names spring to mind: Ralph Sampson and Michael Vick.
By today's standards, they had it easy. They...

Bobby Jones, host of a long-running gospel program on the BET television network, will serve as master of ceremonies for the Andrew Shannon Gospel Music Weekend Celebration in Newport News starting Sept. 7.
"Jones is a performer, radio host and...

For someone who grew up watching Howard White, Randy White and Lefty Driesell compete in the ACC, seeing the University of Maryland leave the conference for the Big Ten is illogical if not blasphemous. But realignment scoffs at tradition, projected...

Another weekend, another PR crisis for the ACC. Another weekend, another chorus of tweets, blogs and columns forecasting the conference’s demise.All of which bring to mind the following lines.“Lighten up, Francis,” Sergeant Hulka said to Psycho in...

One of the primary ambitions behind the ACC’s addition of Pittsburgh and Syracuse was pretty apparent – two high-profile athletic programs would make the conference more attractive to the big television networks, specifically long-time ACC partner...

From Austin Rivers to Michael Snaer to Karl Hess, ACC basketball has produced a madcap season. Too bad so few saw the games in-person.
The conference’s regular-season attendance declined for the fourth consecutive year in 2011-12, with the average home...

John Swofford on Sunday called the ACC’s acquisition of Syracuse and Pittsburgh “monumental.” Talk about terra firma for the commissioner.
The conference’s expansion to 14 schools was stunning in its speed and secrecy. It creates immeasurable amounts...

College football "super conferences" would be a disservice to fans, problematic to govern and risky financial ventures.
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The train carrying Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference may have slowed Sunday, but it remains securely on the tracks and headed toward its scheduled destination.
Done deal? Conference realignment machinations never are until the contracts are...

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CBS, the TV network, and Time Warner, the cable company, are at loggerheads over money. The former, describing itself as "the most-watched television network with the most popular content in the world," would like the latter to pay more than...

Julie O'Malley has a message for Time Warner Cable and CBS.
"Stop being greedy ... and stop holding customers hostage," the Los Angeles resident said after the signal for KCBS-TV Channel 2 went dark Friday. "What is wrong with you...

Michael J. Fox helped establish NBC as the nation’s top broadcaster in the 1980s in the classic sitcom “Family Ties.” Now the ratings-troubled peacock network is hoping the beloved star can help them reclaim some ratings glory with “The Michael J. Fox...

The wails of an infant haunt much of the 13-minute YouTube clip.
On the Internet's dominant video site, recordings of laughing babies, talking twin babies, roller-skating babies long have made for amusing, sure-fire click bait. This case of a crying...

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That's the message Chief...

Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco will be on David Letterman's show tonight talking about the Ravens victory Sunday over the San Francisco 49ers.
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Art Modell, the owner who brought the Ravens to Baltimore, and Jonathan Ogden, the team's first-ever draft pick, were among 15 modern-era finalists announced Friday for the 2013 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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When researcher Erik Patel hiked into the mountainous rain forest of northeast Madagascar in 2001, he was a doctoral student embarking on a quest for basic scientific knowledge about one of the rarest primates in the world: a snow-white lemur called the...